Women holding hands: medium skin tone, dark skin tone Emoji

People

Two women holding hands, rendered with one figure in a medium skin tone and the other in a dark skin tone. The image connects the two characters with a small handshake icon, marking them as a single unit or pair.

Usage Context

Used to denote friendship, sisterhood, or a romantic relationship between two women. It is frequently sent to show solidarity, celebrate a partnership, or highlight a bond between two people of different backgrounds. It is often used alongside 👩‍❤️‍👩 or 👯 when expressing closeness.

History

This emoji was made possible by the introduction of Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequences in Unicode 9.0, released in 2016. This technology allowed developers to combine existing individual emoji components into complex multi-person clusters, drastically increasing the platform's ability to represent diverse real-world relationships.

Details

Glyph

👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏿

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F469 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fd_200d_1f91d_200d_1f469_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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